Political Science

The pioneering tank crew of the First World War would be astonished by the advances made in the design of armoured fighting vehicles over the last 100 years which have resulted in the Challenger 2, the current main battle tank in service with the British...

This is the first book wholly devoted to assessing the array of links between Scotland and the Caribbean in the later eighteenth century. It uses a wide range of archival sources to paint a detailed picture of the lives of thousands of Scots who sought...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982178635Author Marshall TFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780730390275Author Larissa BehrendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint For DummiesPublisher John Wiley & Sons Australia LtdWeight(grams)...

Once you accept that the impossible is really possible, what happens in Russia makes perfect sense "A few pages into David Satter's truly terrifying book, one realizes that his title is smack-on accurate: modern Russia is a frightening member of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062997463Author Thomas E RicksFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 295g

From 'Operation Cast Lead' to the recent assault on the Gaza flotilla, both the severity and the notoriety of Israel's many human rights abuses have begun to seep into the public consciousness and convince a growing international audience of the...

The Research Handbook on the Law of Treaties provides an authoritative treatment of fundamental issues in international treaty law. Identifying key challenges facing the modern law of treaties, the Handbook addresses the current regime and comments on...

In 1920 an Arab revolt came perilously close to inflicting a shattering defeat upon the British Empire's forces occupying Iraq after the Great War. A huge peasant army besieged British garrisons and bombarded them with captured artillery. British columns...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101971048Author David CallahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

How can we make sense of human rights in China's authoritarian Party-State system? Eva Pils offers a nuanced account of this contentious area, examining human rights as a set of social practices. Drawing on a wide range of resources including years of...

Jihadist movements have claimed that they are merely vehicles for the application of God's word, distancing themselves from politics, which they call dirty and manmade. Yet on closer examination, jihadist movements are immersed in politics, negotiating...

An extraordinary new selection of the letters of Che Guevara, from throughout his life, many released for the very first timeChe Guevara was an inveterate letter writer and diarist throughout his short but extraordinary life. His letters and diaries are...

This book offers a critical perspective into social policy architectures primarily in relation to questions of race, national identity and belonging in the Americas. It is the first to identify a connection between the role of international actors in...

A New Statesman Best Book of the YearA Church Times Book of the YearWe are facing a crisis of civility, a war of words polluting our public sphere. In liberal democracies committed to tolerating active, often heated disagreement, the loss of this virtue...

In the 1990s, the "knowledge economy" was hailed by policy-makers in developed democracies as an antidote to the anxieties arising from the era of market liberalization - an era characterized by the decline of skilled blue-collar work, increasing levels...

The United Kingdom has not yet lasted as long as the Kingdom of Wessex, and may not do so. Conventional histories of Britain, though, tell the story of the origins of the UK as if that was the natural endpoint of political development on the island...

The moral values and interpretive systems of religions are crucially involved in how people imagine the challenges of sustainability and how societies mobilize to enhance ecosystem resilience and human well-being.The Routledge Handbook of Religion and...

As the climate emergency intensifies, rights-based climate cases - litigation that is based on human rights law - are becoming an increasingly important tool for securing more ambitious climate action. This book is the first to offer a systematic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986073120Author Dr Graeme MacqueenFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Now in its fourth edition, this is the classic assessment of the state of child well-being in the United Kingdom. This edition has been updated to review the latest evidence, examining the outcomes for children of the impact of the economic crisis and...

Youth civic engagement efforts have become common across the globe. With the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, many have turned to civic engagement methodologies to create opportunities for young people to have a voice in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorAki J. Peritz is the coauthor of Find, Fix, Finish: Inside the Counterterrorism Campaigns that Killed Bin Laden and Devastated Al Qaeda. He is a frequent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871564061Author Allen D. KannerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Sierra Club BooksPublisher Sierra Club BooksWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

An illuminating look at the transformative role that rituals play in our political livesThe Politics of Ritual is a major new account of the political power of rituals. In this incisive and wide-ranging book, Molly Farneth argues that rituals are social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736153208Author Leslie KernisanFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Better Health While Aging, LLCPublisher Better Health While Aging, LLCWeight(grams)...

Life under capitalism. Rampant debilitating denial for the many next to vile enrichment of the few. Material deprivation, denial, and denigration. Dignity defiled. Michael Albert's book No Bosses advocates for the conception and then organization of a...

Shortlisted for the Conflict Research Society's 2021 Book of the Year Prize Shortlisted for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society 2021 Book Prize After the overthrow of the Qadhafi regime in 2011, Libya witnessed a dramatic breakdown of centralized...

'One of the most remarkable books to emerge from the Northern conflict. I can't recall any other book which gives the reader the same accessibility to the streets of Belfast.' Irish Post 'A thrilling people's history of Belfast's most famous housing...

Little has been written about the cuisines of Borneo, the fourth largest island in the world, occupied by three nations, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. Fascinated by its history, astonishing biodiversity and peoples, Koh spent four years travelling...

In Hailing the State, Lisa Mitchell explores the methods of collective assembly that people in India use to hold elected officials and government administrators accountable, demand inclusion in decision making, and stage informal referendums. Mitchell...

The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but not a nuanced understanding of everyday life in Jim Crow...

Delving into the rationale behind influential communication, The Power And Influence Of Illustration helps you understand how to work with a message to create convincing illustrations for your audience. Alan Male explains how illustrative imagery can...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900311Author Earl Ofari HutchinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637630594Author Glenn BeckFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Forefront BooksPublisher Forefront BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 160mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400048571Author Aaron McGruderFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Three Rivers PressWeight(grams) 944g

Conspiracy theories are inevitable in complex human societies. And while they have always been with us, their multiplication and proliferation is unprecedented due to increasing knowledge, a sense of powerlessness, and a distrust of elites, that have...

For a little over a decade after the ignominious collapse of the Revolution of 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels worked as professional journalists. Writing from London for newspapers in the United States and, eventually, on the Continent, Marx...

Over forty years after it first appeared, T.H. Marshall's seminal essay on citizenship and social class in post-war Britain has acquired the status of a classic. His lucid analysis of the principal elements of citizenship - namely, the possession of...

From award-winning historian Richard Overy, Interrogations: Inside the Minds of the Nazi Elite is the harrowing true story of the interviews with Nazi masterminds in the aftermath of the Second World War. How can we ever understand why those in the...